GOTT'IM'S MONSTER 1808 is coming-of-age speculative fiction. A New England Gothic recasting of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Gott'im's Monster is part of The God's Cycle and is set in the mountains of Western Maine, 1808. Its fantastic elements sparse in beginning, The God's Cycle moves through its story in time and place with increasing mythic emphasis. This version of Gott'im's Monster is abridged, leaving out the townsfolk "chorus" of its1980s frame, within which the original 1808 story is pictured. Gott'im's Monster 1808 is the more compact tale.